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Readings and sample vocabulary for each kanji include those given by the official list (PDF) from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.

Kanji stroke-order images provided by KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under a CC-by-SA 3.0 license.

Example sentences are provided by Tatoeba under a CC-by 2.0 license.

This publication has included material from the JMdict (EDICT, etc.) dictionary files in accordance with the licence provisions of the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group. See http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict.html and http://www.edrdg.org/

Etymologies, if given, are generally taken from Henshall and Seeley's *The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji*.